Notice those white or purple carrots at the market and wonder how they taste? See how different color carrots taste below.
Red Carrots
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Red carrots don't differ in taste much from orange carrots. Their red color, though, comes from lycopene, the heralded antioxidant in tomatoes.
Purple Carrots
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Purple carrots are only purple on the outside – their insides tend to be pretty orange colored. They have an intensely sweet flavor, though, that can sometimes even have a little peppery flavor.
Orange Carrots
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Orange carrots won out in the breeding of carrots in 17th-century Holland, but carrots before then came in a wide range of colors – including green. Orange carrots, like their other-colored brethren, contain about 4 times the USDA recommended dose of vitamin A and lots of beta-carotene.
White or Golden Carrots
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White or golden carrots are yellow or cream colored. They are mild and a bit sweeter than orange, red, or purple carrots.
